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Kreutz founded the Jesuit Volunteers Philippines Foundation, Inc. (JVP) in 1980. The JVP was formed with the mission of assisting underserved communities in rural areas of the Philippines. Its members are composed of new college graduates and young professionals. [3] [8] [9] It is the longest-running domestic-volunteer-sending program in the ...
The Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) is an organization of lay volunteers who volunteer one year or more to community service with poor communities. JVC works in inner city neighborhoods and rural communities in about 36 different cities throughout the U.S. [1] JVC works with the homeless, abused women and children, immigrants and refugees, the mentally ill, people with HIV/AIDS and other ...
Loyola College of Culion is a private, Catholic, Jesuit, secondary and higher education institution run by the Philippine Province of the Society of Jesus, in Culion, Palawan, Philippines. The school was opened by the Jesuits in 1936 for the purpose of having a school for the children of leprosy patients.
Over the past 65 years, over 12,000 individuals have served as Jesuit Volunteers through JVC and JVC Northwest, with more than 7,000 of those serving in the Northwest. [1] Between 1974 and 1980, Jesuit Volunteer Corps established new chapters as it expanded beyond the Northwest: International, South, Southwest, East, and Midwest.
Institution Location President Students Athletic nickname School colors Founded Ateneo de Manila University: Quezon City: Fr. Roberto C. Yap, S.J. 11,465
A Jesuit Volunteer Corps house in Santa Clara, California, is named Casa Pedro Arrupe; A school in the Philippines, the Pedro Arrupe Academy. The neighbourhood partnership program named the Arrupe House at Saint Ignatius High School in Cleveland, Ohio; The "Arrupe Scholars" scholarship program at John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio [33]
Michael Earls 1895, Jesuit priest, writer, poet, teacher, and Holy Cross administrator; Michael Harrington 1947, socialist historian and author of The Other America, which is believed to have inspired Lyndon Johnson's Great Society social programs
The Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) is a consortium of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities and three theological centers in the United States, Canada, and Belize committed to advancing academic excellence by promoting and coordinating collaborative activities, sharing resources, and advocating and representing the work of Jesuit higher education at the national and ...